Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] zabbix-agent

2014-11-06 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
From: Pawel Stefanski [mailto:pejo...@gmail.com] here you have complete instruction https://www.zabbix.com/wiki/howto/install/solaris/opensolaris I know. I described that as Plan B. See: Plan A is to get it from a standard package repository, and Plan B is to get the solaris binaries

[OpenIndiana-discuss] zabbix-agent

2014-11-05 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
Hi. I'm trying to figure out the best easiest way to get zabbix-agent installed on openindiana. The post here suggests that it should already be included in some standard package repository, but I don't see it in dev, sfe, or sfe-encumbered.

[OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS allowed characters (valid characters)

2014-09-14 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
Is ZFS using Unicode or ASCII? Or something else? Are there disallowed characters? '\0' or @ or '/' or anything else? I know these characters generally would be *difficult* to use just because of limitations of your application environment (for example, bash will always parse the '/' as a

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS allowed characters (valid characters)

2014-09-14 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
From: Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana) [mailto:openindi...@nedharvey.com] Is ZFS using Unicode or ASCII? Or something else? Are there disallowed characters? '\0' or @ or '/' or anything else? I know these characters generally would be *difficult* to use just because of limitations

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Real performance hit raidz2 5 disks vs 6?

2014-07-05 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
From: Hans J Albertsson [mailto:hans.j.alberts...@gmail.com] I will use it for media files over cifs and/or dlna, almost exclusively. Thus it'll be almost consistently write once/read many, and most files will be large. In your case, performance will be almost irrelevant. Because even

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Is this dell xeon a decent buy

2014-06-02 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
From: Harry Putnam [mailto:rea...@newsguy.com] http://www.ebay.com/itm/Dell-Poweredge-6650-Enterprise-Server-2-x- Intel-Xeon-1-5-GHz-8-GB- /261423732486?pt=COMP_EN_Servershash=item3cde119706 I didn't actually follow the link, so this might be irrelevant: IMHO, don't use the motherboard

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Testing from myself

2014-05-23 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Testing from myself

2014-05-23 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
again -Original Message- From: Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana) [mailto:openindi...@nedharvey.com] Sent: Friday, May 23, 2014 8:51 AM To: 'openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org' Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Testing from myself hi

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Critical security issue notification

2014-04-11 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
From: Udo Grabowski (IMK) [mailto:udo.grabow...@kit.edu] Moral: Never run a changing system ! Heheh, I hope the irony is intentional. ;-) Like Never get vaccines, because sometimes vaccines cause problems. ;-) It's true that sometimes updates cause problems, but there are *more*

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] USB boot Sometimes?

2014-03-29 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
From: Udo Grabowski (IMK) [mailto:udo.grabow...@kit.edu] So - Thank you, Udo and Wim. I tried several USB2 thumb drives and USB2 hard drives, and they all worked. I only have one USB3 device, and it doesn't work, even though the machine itself has USB2 and therefore USB3 isn't being used.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] USB boot Sometimes?

2014-03-28 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
From: w...@vandenberge.us [mailto:w...@vandenberge.us] My guess would be that this is due to the lack of USB3 support in OpenIndiana. Have you tried plugging the drive into a USB2 port, forcing the device into USB2 mode, and seeing if it works (I know that's not what you really want but it

[OpenIndiana-discuss] USB boot Sometimes?

2014-03-28 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
I installed oi server to an old slow 4G usb thumb drive as a test, just to see if it's possible. It worked fine; it's just slow as hell. So I bought a pair of 32GB usb3 fast devices, and installed oi to one of them... But grub fails. It just boots up to a grub menu and stops there. So I

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to let find 'see' .zfs directories

2014-03-22 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
From: Timothy Coalson [mailto:tsc...@mst.edu] You could instead test for the existence of the .zfs directory in all folders, with some kind of find . -type d -exec 'test -d {}/.zfs' This is what zhist does under the hood. It's not the same as 'find' but useful in a lot of cases.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] NFS

2014-01-31 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
From: Ryan John [mailto:john.r...@bsse.ethz.ch] Being reliant on NFS myself, I decided to test this. I just updated one test machine from OI_a8 to OI_a9, and another from OI_a7 to OI_a9 Both machines give the same results, IE: NFSv3 works okay. My clients are RetHat EL6. I wonder what

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] NFS

2014-01-30 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
From: Jonathan Adams [mailto:t12nsloo...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2014 4:06 AM If a share was mounted on the client and you change the underlying NFS version on the server then you will need to get the client to unmount all shares from the server before they can see the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] NFS

2014-01-30 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
From: Jonathan Adams [mailto:t12nsloo...@gmail.com] to test if it is a permissions problem, can you just set sharenfs=on? and then try to access from the other machines? Thanks for the help everyone. I decided to take it a step further than that: On both the 151a7 (homer) and 151a9 (marge)

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] NFS

2014-01-30 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
From: Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana) It *appears* that NFSv4 is fine in both 151a7 and 151a9. It *appears* that NFSv3 is broken in 151a9. Which was unfortunately, necessary to support ESXi client and Ubuntu 10.04 client. ___ OpenIndiana-discuss

[OpenIndiana-discuss] NFS

2014-01-29 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
At home, I have oi_151a7 and ESXi 5.1. I wrote down precisely how to share NFS, and mount from the ESXi machine. sudo zfs set sharenfs=rw=@192.168.5.5/32,root=@192.168.5.5/32 mypool/somefilesystem I recall it was a pain to get the syntax correct, especially thanks to some

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Expanding storage with JBOD

2014-01-08 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
From: Dave Pooser [mailto:dave...@pooserville.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 7, 2014 12:22 PM Sans Digital makes one-- their part number TR4M6GNC, selling at NewEgg for $134.99. I'd never use one myself, because they seem to be a recipe for weird flakiness and I/O hangs, and ZFS does not deal

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Expanding storage with JBOD

2014-01-07 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
From: Hans J Albertsson [mailto:hans.j.alberts...@branneriet.se] Sent: Tuesday, January 7, 2014 5:01 AM I thought that might be what you were talking about, but I wanted to be sure. Shelf, fix icy box and PS, short pins by clips-and-wire and add som isolation for safe op? Can you suggest

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Expanding storage with JBOD

2014-01-07 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
From: Saso Kiselkov [mailto:skiselkov...@gmail.com] Nope, SATA does have port multipliers, though I agree that beyond a certain point it becomes a mess. Now that you mention it, when I look around, everything that I find called a SATA port multiplier is some sort of add-on card that takes

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Expanding storage with JBOD

2014-01-02 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
From: Roman Naumenko [mailto:ro...@naumenko.ca] I don't know if even 2TB will fill fast enough to justifying any investment into storage expansion. I don't get that comment. Speaking about storage expansion, even HBA cards are dirt cheap, pricing on enclosures with integrated SAS

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS keeps finding errors

2013-12-21 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
-Original Message- From: Jim Klimov [mailto:jimkli...@cos.ru] Sent: Saturday, December 21, 2013 10:13 AM Recycle. ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] real-time syncing two directories across servers (unison ?)

2013-12-11 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
From: Gregory Youngblood [mailto:greg...@youngblood.me] Check out owncloud. The open source components might be useful. I personally, and two other IT guys that I've spoken with from different companies, have been burned by placing any trust in owncloud. In fact, I'm still subscribed to

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 10GigE vs Infiniband vs SCSI Target ...

2013-11-20 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
No responses Anybody? -Original Message- From: Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana) [mailto:openindi...@nedharvey.com] Sent: Monday, November 18, 2013 7:35 AM To: 'openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org' Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 10GigE vs Infiniband vs SCSI Target ... ZFS

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 10GigE vs Infiniband vs SCSI Target ...

2013-11-20 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
From: jason matthews [mailto:ja...@broken.net] does that help? Thank you, what I was looking for was: I want to connect the vmware servers to the openindiana server using SAS hardware. Beat the performance of Ether, and not as expensive (or as difficult) as Infiniband. Let the

[OpenIndiana-discuss] 10GigE vs Infiniband vs SCSI Target ...

2013-11-18 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
ZFS is great to manage backend storage in a SAN environment. So then you're likely to use 10GigE, or Infiniband as the transport... I only recently discovered SAS SFF-8088. Gives you 4x 6Gbit buses yielding 24 Gbit with very low overhead, low cost. A lot of performance for the buck. I also

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [zfs] problem on my zpool

2013-10-22 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
From: Clement BRIZARD [mailto:clem...@brizou.fr] NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM nas UNAVAIL 63 2 0 insufficient replicas raidz1-0 DEGRADED 0 0 0

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Good enterprise hardware

2013-10-21 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
From: Mark Creamer [mailto:white...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, October 20, 2013 12:19 AM To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Good enterprise hardware For whatever it's worth, I've been buying SM servers for the last couple years. I had a motherboard failure

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Good enterprise hardware

2013-10-19 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
I'm planning to build a ZFS storage server in the datacenter. Mission critical storage for virtualization, requiring hardware support, 24/7, 4hr, sameday onsite. I thought I was going with silicon mechanics, and just learned, that their 24/7 4hr sameday service is pointless - because they

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Opinions on LSI RAID vs. ZFS

2013-10-10 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
From: Aneurin Price [mailto:aneurin.pr...@gmail.com] Is this in IDE emulation mode per-chance? If your controller acts this way in AHCI mode, it's defective and should be replaced Alright, I'll try again. Gimme a couple days to respond, as this is what I do for offsite data rotation. I

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Opinions on LSI RAID vs. ZFS

2013-10-10 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
From: Joshua M. Clulow [mailto:j...@sysmgr.org] This is emphatically false. Though the pestilence of cfgadm(1M) and the idea that device replacement is somehow advantageously manual had persisted inside Sun's walls until its untimely demise, SunOS itself is certainly capable of

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Opinions on LSI RAID vs. ZFS

2013-10-09 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
From: Christopher Chan [mailto:christopher.c...@bradbury.edu.hk] Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2013 8:42 PM Er...isn't hotswap capability PART of the specs whether the drives are SAS or SATA? I can do this on a cheap desktop motherboard but you cannot on a server board with getting a HBA?

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Opinions on LSI RAID vs. ZFS

2013-10-09 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
From: Stefan Müller-Wilken [mailto:stefan.mueller-wil...@acando.de] Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2013 3:34 AM ... so just to make sure I got that right: for the T3-1 you'd suggest to dump the PCIe HBA and go with the on-board SAS controller - even for production use? And for the DL380,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Opinions on LSI RAID vs. ZFS

2013-10-09 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
From: Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana) If it were truly hot plug, then the OS should get a drive disconnected signal, and c1t1d1 should not exist anymore. As is the case with a USB drive or firewire. (or hotplug capable HBA) ___ OpenIndiana

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Opinions on LSI RAID vs. ZFS

2013-10-08 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
From: Stefan Müller-Wilken [mailto:stefan.mueller-wil...@acando.de] Question now: what would you recommend? 8 LSI RAID0 LVs under ZFS, 8 drives under LSI RAID-5, or switch to an Oracle certified controller with JBOD mode (which one??)? Does it make sense to go for Soft RAID anyway, with

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Opinions on LSI RAID vs. ZFS

2013-10-08 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
From: Peter Tribble [mailto:peter.trib...@gmail.com] This is where I get a little confused. Why an extra HBA at all - what's wrong with using the SAS ports on the system board? My usual reason for using an HBA is for hot plug, and red blinking lights on failed drives. If you have degraded

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Opinions on LSI RAID vs. ZFS

2013-10-08 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
From: Saso Kiselkov [mailto:skiselkov...@gmail.com] I find, with the motherboard built-in sas controller, you usually need to power off in order to swap a drive, and you need to devfsadm -Cv after coming up, in order to make the new drive available. What kind of a messed up SAS

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] VMware

2013-08-13 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
From: James Relph [mailto:ja...@themacplace.co.uk] Sent: Monday, August 12, 2013 4:47 PM No, we're not getting any ping loss, that's the thing. The network looks entirely faultless. We've run pings for 24 hours with no ping loss. Yeah, I swore you said you had ping loss before - but if

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Using OI and zfs from a windows machine

2013-07-04 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
From: Robbie Crash [mailto:sardonic.smi...@gmail.com] I always see this bandied about. Following the Oracle documentation on how to join OI to a domain for the built in CIFS serving has worked for me, flawlessly on 10 different OI installations. Every time I hear about people with issues

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Using OI and zfs from a windows machine

2013-07-03 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
From: Harry Putnam [mailto:rea...@newsguy.com] When I did run OI, I had recurring problems with various permissions type problems when accessing the zfs server from windows. Technically supported. I personally wouldn't trust ... and your complaint adds validation to my superstition. I

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] running VirtualBox headless

2013-06-25 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
From: Jan Owoc [mailto:jso...@gmail.com] 1) in the case of synchronous=off, I had an order of magnitude speed increase for writes (i.e. during the install :-) ). Are there general guidelines for what kinds of workloads are safe to have the ZIL disabled? You mean sync=disabled. ;-) It

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] running VirtualBox headless

2013-06-24 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
From: Jan Owoc [mailto:jso...@gmail.com] I'm running a home NAS using OI 151a7 server (vs. desktop). I was thinking of running Ubuntu Server in a virtual machine on OI, ideally configured to startup/shutdown when OI starts/shuts down. I can connect a monitor to the machine, but it generally

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS read speed(iSCSI)

2013-06-07 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
From: Heinrich van Riel [mailto:heinrich.vanr...@gmail.com] I will post my findings, but might take some time to fix the network in time and they will have to deal with 1Gbps for the storage. The request is to run ~90 VMs on 8 servers connected. With 90 VM's on 8 servers, being served ZFS

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS read speed(iSCSI)

2013-06-07 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
From: Jim Klimov [mailto:jimkli...@cos.ru] With 90 VM's on 8 servers, being served ZFS iscsi storage by 4x 1Gb ethernet in LACP, you're really not going to care about any one VM being able to go above 1Gbit. Because it's going to be so busy all the time, that the 4 LACP bonded ports

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] shell script mutex locking or process signaling

2013-05-31 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
From: Laurent Blume [mailto:laurent...@elanor.org] That's why I pointed out mine are in /tmp or /var/run - tmpfs, so it's guaranteed cleared on reboot, graceful or not :-) The behavior of clearing out /tmp is a configurable feature, and the default varies by OS. Some OSes clear it on every

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] shell script mutex locking or process signaling

2013-05-31 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
From: Gary Mills [mailto:gary_mi...@fastmail.fm] SMF is actually well documented, but you do have to jump around from man page to man page. Start with `man smf'. There are also lots of examples to follow, both of manifests and methods. They are all text files. Ok, so here's a

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] shell script mutex locking or process signaling

2013-05-31 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
From: Udo Grabowski (IMK) [mailto:udo.grabow...@kit.edu] If you don't understand SMF (which is a bit clumsy, but indeed has all what you want), use this little generator, it will do the hard work for you: http://sgpit.com/smf/ That's a pretty cool generator. But apparently, I understand

[OpenIndiana-discuss] shell script mutex locking or process signaling

2013-05-30 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
Here's the problem I'm trying to solve: SMF service is configured to launch things like VirtualBox during startup / shutdown. This startup process can take a long time (10, 20 minutes) so if there's a problem of any kind for any reason, you might do things like enable and disable or refresh

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Moving ZFS pool between systems ?

2013-05-30 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
From: Svavar Örn Eysteinsson [mailto:sva...@fiton.is] So my question, is it as simple as zpool export datapool on the orginal machine and zpool import on the new one ? Should be that simple. Yes. As long as you're not doing any proprietary hardware RAID on the disks, and you ensure the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] shell script mutex locking or process signaling

2013-05-30 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
From: Gary Mills [mailto:gary_mi...@fastmail.fm] On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 02:15:12PM +, Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana) wrote: Here's the problem I'm trying to solve: SMF service is configured to launch things like VirtualBox during startup / shutdown. This startup process can

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] shell script mutex locking or process signaling

2013-05-30 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
From: Aneurin Price [mailto:aneurin.pr...@gmail.com] I don't know about pure/POSIX shell, but at least bash and ksh support noclobber, which should do the trick. I've been using the following idiom for some time without problems: I read somewhere (possibly obsolete, and also can't relocate)

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] replacing an open solaris box

2013-05-28 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
From: Kristoff Bonne [mailto:krist...@skypro.be] Is there a list of applications that does work OK? As said, my requirements are not that special: thunderbird, firefox, virtual box. thunderbird and firefox are included in the standard OS package repositories. So yes, those work.

[OpenIndiana-discuss] export pool at shutdown and import at boot up

2013-05-27 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
I have some external storage which isn't super reliable. If I don't export it before shutdown, it will often cause the boot to fail, as it doesn't mount properly. I would like to make that pool automatically export during shutdown, or somehow flag it so the system will never try to import or

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] export pool at shutdown and import at boot up

2013-05-27 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
From: Bill Sommerfeld [mailto:sommerf...@alum.mit.edu] On 05/27/13 17:25, Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana) wrote: I have some external storage which isn't super reliable. If I don't export it before shutdown, it will often cause the boot to fail, as it doesn't mount properly. I would

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] replacing an open solaris box

2013-05-25 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
From: Nikola M. [mailto:minik...@gmail.com] On 05/24/13 02:46 PM, Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana) wrote: From: Kristoff Bonne [mailto:krist...@skypro.be] Sent: Friday, May 24, 2013 5:27 AM What Operating System would you now advice for a personal workstation for simple work (telnet

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] replacing an open solaris box

2013-05-24 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
From: Kristoff Bonne [mailto:krist...@skypro.be] Sent: Friday, May 24, 2013 5:27 AM What Operating System would you now advice for a personal workstation for simple work (telnet/ssh to other devices, perl, firefox, thunderbird, ...). Also important is the ability to run VirtualBox. For

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 2.88Mb floppy image file.

2013-05-01 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
From: Jonathan Adams [mailto:t12nsloo...@gmail.com] Hi ... I was recently trying to create a 2.88Mb floppy file to try and BIOS upgrade a Dell computer that wouldn't boot anything graphical. I know I'm probably going about this wrong, but I cannot seem to use fdformat, or mkfs -F pcfs on

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Problem with Dell iDRAC

2013-04-23 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
From: Kris Henriksson [mailto:kt...@cornell.edu] I've been having a long-standing issue with using the iDRAC on my server with OpenIndiana, and I thought before giving up completely, I could try asking the mailing list. The problem is that the iDRAC is completely inaccessible while

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Problem with Dell iDRAC

2013-04-23 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
Oh. I see now, Rich's solution about updated driver. That sounds better. ;-) -Original Message- From: Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana) Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2013 8:34 AM To: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org Subject: RE: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Problem with Dell iDRAC From

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Pounding on well trod ground..

2013-04-22 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
From: Harry Putnam [mailto:rea...@newsguy.com] Sorry to go over what must have been already covered many times but I dropped out of OI participation for a good long while. Hopefully someone will feel kindly disposed and post a brief outline of how to go from zero to running a vb vm of

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Recommendations for fast storage

2013-04-18 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
From: Jay Heyl [mailto:j...@frelled.us] Ah, that makes much more sense. Thanks for the clarification. Now that you put it that way I have to wonder how I ever came under the impression it was any other way. I've gotten lost in the numerous mis-communications of this thread, but just to

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Recommendations for fast storage

2013-04-18 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
From: Timothy Coalson [mailto:tsc...@mst.edu] Did you also compare the probability of bit errors causing data loss without a complete pool failure? 2-way mirrors, when one device completely dies, have no redundancy on that data, and the copy that remains must be perfect or some data will

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Recommendations for fast storage

2013-04-18 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
From: Jay Heyl [mailto:j...@frelled.us] I now realize you're talking about 8 separate 2-disk mirrors organized into a pool. mirror x1 y1 mirror x2 y2 mirror x3 y3... Yup. That's normal, and the only way. I also realize that almost every discussion I've seen online concerning mirrors

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] vdev reliability was: Recommendations for fast storage

2013-04-18 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
From: Sebastian Gabler [mailto:sequoiamo...@gmx.net] AFAIK, a bit error in Parity or stripe data can be specifically dangerous when it is raised during resilvering, and there is only one layer of redundancy left. You're saying error in parity, but that's because you're thinking of raidz,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] vdev reliability was: Recommendations for fast storage

2013-04-18 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
From: Jim Klimov [mailto:jimkli...@cos.ru] Well, thanks to checksums we can know which variant of userdata is correct, and thanks to parities we can verify which bytes are wrong in a particular block. If there's relatively few such bytes, it is theoretically possible to brute-force match

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] vdev reliability was: Recommendations for fast storage

2013-04-18 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
From: Timothy Coalson [mailto:tsc...@mst.edu] As for what I said about resilver speed, I had not accounted for the fact that data reads on a raid-z2 component device would be significantly shorter than for the same data on 2-way mirrors. Depending on whether you are using enormous block

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Recommendations for fast storage

2013-04-17 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
From: Sašo Kiselkov [mailto:skiselkov...@gmail.com] Raid-Z indeed does stripe data across all leaf vdevs (minus parity) and does so by splitting the logical block up into equally sized portions. Jay, there you have it. You asked why use mirrors, and you said you would use raidz2 or

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Recommendations for fast storage (OpenIndiana-discuss Digest, Vol 33, Issue 20)

2013-04-16 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
From: Bob Friesenhahn [mailto:bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us] It would be difficult to believe that 10Gbit Ethernet offers better bandwidth than 56Gbit Infiniband (the current offering). The swiching model is quite similar. The main reason why IB offers better latency is a better HBA

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Recommendations for fast storage

2013-04-16 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
From: Sašo Kiselkov [mailto:skiselkov...@gmail.com] If you are IOPS constrained, then yes, raid-zn will be slower, simply because any read needs to hit all data drives in the stripe. Saso, I would expect you to know the answer to this question, probably: I have heard that raidz is more

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Recommendations for fast storage

2013-04-16 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
From: Jay Heyl [mailto:j...@frelled.us] So I'm just assuming you're going to build a pool out of SSD's, mirrored, perhaps even 3-way mirrors. No cache/log devices. All the ram you can fit into the system. What would be the logic behind mirrored SSD arrays? With spinning platters the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Recommendations for fast storage

2013-04-16 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
From: Mehmet Erol Sanliturk [mailto:m.e.sanlit...@gmail.com] SSD units are very vulnerable to power cuts during work up to complete failure which they can not be used any more to complete loss of data . If there are any junky drives out there that fail so dramatically, those are junky and

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Recommendations for fast storage

2013-04-15 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
From: Wim van den Berge [mailto:w...@vandenberge.us] multiple 10Gb uplinks However the next system is going to be a little different. It needs to be the absolute fastest iSCSI target we can create/afford. So I'm just assuming you're going to build a pool out of SSD's, mirrored, perhaps

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZfS migration scenario including zvols

2013-04-13 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
From: Sebastian Gabler [mailto:sequoiamo...@gmx.net] Sent: Saturday, April 13, 2013 11:38 AM - zfs send mainbranch@1 -R /pool2/mainbranch.dmp for each nfs, iscsi, smb It is advisable, if possible, to create a new zpool with your new tmp storage, and zfs send | zfs receive. (Don't store a

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZfS migration scenario including zvols

2013-04-10 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
From: Sebastian Gabler [mailto:sequoiamo...@gmx.net] Be careful, there are lots of ways to screw this up. Fortunately, not many of them result in data loss or anything like that. Just bad behavior. Specifically, I thinking, you want to send including properties, to preserve the nfs iscsi

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to configure OI for proper daylight savings adjustments.

2013-04-01 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
From: Robin Axelsson [mailto:gu99r...@student.chalmers.se] Is there anyone who has got this working properly? I confirm that it works correctly out of the box, for EST/EDT (New York time), with this line in /etc/default/init TZ=US/Eastern this line in /etc/rtc_config zone_info=US/Eastern

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Added a page on the wiki about using Xvnc for multiple simultaneous graphical logins.

2013-03-29 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
From: Hans J. Albertsson [mailto:hans.j.alberts...@branneriet.se] http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/4.7+Remote+Graphical+Login:+Using+Xvnc+ and+gdm That's interesting ... So correct me if I'm wrong, you VNC to your server on 5900, and you get a login prompt as if you were sitting down in front

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Dhcp woes, (was Re: Anyone using OpenIndiana in production?)

2013-03-28 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
From: Michael Stapleton [mailto:michael.staple...@techsologic.com] The Dhcp files can be stored on NFS and used by multiple servers. It defeats the purpose of redundant dhcp servers if you make them both dependent on non-redundant storage. But that's only tangential. The upshot of what

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Anyone using OpenIndiana in production?

2013-03-27 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
From: Gerry Weaver [mailto:ger...@compvia.com] I have been checking out OpenIndiana as a possible file server and KVM host. I have several sites using OI for samba, dns, and VirtualBox. As far as stability is concerned, yes it's stable. But it's not amazingly mature (see below). Others

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Dhcp woes, (was Re: Anyone using OpenIndiana in production?)

2013-03-27 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
From: Jim Klimov [mailto:jimkli...@cos.ru] Well, at the time I documented this page, it worked (at oi_151a5 timeframe, I believe): http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/Using+host- only+networking+to+get+from+build+zones+and+test+VMs+to+the+Intern et Yikes. Thanks for writing that up. But ..

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 3737 days of uptime

2013-03-20 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
From: dormitionsk...@hotmail.com [mailto:dormitionsk...@hotmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2013 11:42 PM A Sun Solaris machine was shut down last week in Hungary, I think, after 3737 days of uptime. Below are links to the article and video. Warning: It might bring a tear to your

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] IO Stalls

2013-03-08 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
From: Grant Albitz [mailto:gr...@schultztechnology.com] I have been chasing an issue with my openindiana host for some time. It is stable for a few weeks but then I find it rebooted with no kernel errors. This sounds like a driver issue. I've had similar problems on an R510 or R520, or

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] DLNA server

2013-03-08 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
From: Michelle Knight [mailto:miche...@msknight.com] It looks like I'm going to have to install something on the server to publish the video directories in DLNA, which I've got no experience of. This is what I do: sudo pkg set-publisher -p http://pkg.openindiana.org/sfe-encumbered sudo pkg

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] multiple IP addresses, same NIC

2013-03-06 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
From: Robbie Crash [mailto:sardonic.smi...@gmail.com] If you're not accessing clients on the remote 192.168.1.0 subnet, why are you adding the second network? Why are you not handling this on the router instead of the client? Static routes on a client are bad mojo. It's the router's job

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] multiple IP addresses, same NIC

2013-03-06 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
From: Robbie Crash [mailto:sardonic.smi...@gmail.com] The problem is at the remote side. If they have a huge internal corporate network that happens to include 192.168.10.x/24 and 192.168.1.x/24 ... When I VPN to them and my LAN is 192.168.1.x/24, I have a subnet that overlaps with

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] multiple IP addresses, same NIC

2013-03-06 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
From: Robbie Crash [mailto:sardonic.smi...@gmail.com] This is something that should be handled at the router, not at the client in software. It turns out, I reached a conclusion with the NAT possibility. In pfsense, you can NAT traffic before it goes across an openvpn, but you can't NAT

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] multiple IP addresses, same NIC

2013-03-06 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
From: Reginald Beardsley [mailto:pulask...@yahoo.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2013 3:34 PM How about summarizing on the wiki? I'm in favor, but in this case, I don't think there's anything to summarize ... Here is the summary: sudo dladm create-vnic -l e1000g0 vnic0 sudo ipadm

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] It was so easy... Re: xvnc-inetd only accepting one connection in total?? Huh??

2013-03-05 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
From: Hans J. Albertsson [mailto:hans.j.alberts...@branneriet.se] And now I realise I haven't understood a thing... Nothing works. All new connection attempts are met with a request for a vnc password... But there is no password configured... Are you opposed to putting different users on

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] multiple IP addresses, same NIC

2013-03-05 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
From: Doug Hughes [mailto:d...@will.to] 2) explicitly set the route for 192.168.10.x : route add 192.168.10.0/mask 192.168.2.1 That's what I'm saying I have already done. I set the default route to 192.168.1.1, and I set a static route, 192.168.10.x/24 via 192.168.2.1. The route is in

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] xvnc-inetd only accepting one connection in total?? Huh??

2013-03-01 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
Here is how I do it: If I'm not misunderstanding, I think this is what you want. https://code.google.com/p/simplesmf/ There is a simplesmf service to enable vnc-server. It starts automatically at startup, and shuts down automatically at shutdown... You configure user1 to always have a VNC

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] RAIDZ performance

2013-02-20 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
From: Reginald Beardsley [mailto:pulask...@yahoo.com] For 3 disk RAIDZ1 I get 189-199 MB/s and 179 MB/s for 4 disk RAIDZ1. But for 4 disk RAIDZ2 I get 109-118 MB/s. I expected some loss in performance, but not that much. These are measured writing 64 GB of /dev/zero to the RAIDZ

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] weird packet garbling problem

2013-02-06 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
From: Roel_D [mailto:openindi...@out-side.nl] I use ASA5505's always. I never had this problem with solaris 1011, but those run on sun hardware. I also have solaris 10 on an old HP DL340 with bge's also without problem. And OI 1.57 on VMware also without the problems you describe. I use

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Zfs import fails

2013-02-06 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
From: Ram Chander [mailto:ramqu...@gmail.com] I had a zpool thats exported on another system and when i try to import, it fails. Any idea how to recover ? Start by proving there isn't some other problem. Import the pool again on the same system that did the export. Assuming you can

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] weird packet garbling problem

2013-02-04 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
From: James Carlson [mailto:carls...@workingcode.com] Which of the many Broadcom drivers is this? If it's bnx, try editing /kernel/drv/bnx.conf, and uncommenting and changing the checksum= line to set it to all zeros. One of the systems is using bge, and the other is using bnx. I notice

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] weird packet garbling problem

2013-02-04 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
From: Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana) [mailto:openindi...@nedharvey.com] I am having a really hard time coming up with a plausible explanation for this, other than some kind of kernel bug with openindiana... Found a new clue, which is totally unbelievable, yet totally enlightening

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Time slider ready for prime time?

2013-02-03 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
From: Stefan Müller-Wilken [mailto:stefan.mueller-wil...@acando.de] can anyone comment on this? Will time slider work reliably enough on a developer workstation to use it in real development work? Yup, it's awesome. The only catch that I'm aware of is immediately after OS installation,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Auto snapshots

2013-02-02 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
From: Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana) [mailto:openindi...@nedharvey.com] In 151a5, I had to fiddle with password before time-slider GUI config worked. But the present release is 151a7, so maybe that's a resolved issue now. Either way, the workaround was trivial, so I would say you can

[OpenIndiana-discuss] weird packet garbling problem

2013-02-02 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
I am having a really hard time coming up with a plausible explanation for this, other than some kind of kernel bug with openindiana... I have two systems in the office, Dell PowerEdge SC 1435 (Embedded Broadcom 5721 NIC) and Dell PowerEdge 2950 (Embedded Broadcom 5708 NIC), both running OI

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] weird packet garbling problem

2013-02-02 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
From: Jim Klimov [mailto:jimkli...@cos.ru] Basically, the workaround for us was to enable this line in /etc/system: set ip:dohwcksum = 0 Oh well, thanks for the suggestion... Unfortunately, didn't make any difference... ___

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] weird packet garbling problem

2013-02-02 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
From: Bob Friesenhahn [mailto:bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us] Unless TCP is offloaded from the kernel (so that checksums are in an adaptor card), it is exceedingly difficult for wrong data to pass TCP's checksumming and get passed up to the socket that SSH uses. In the one packet capture that

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